By Roger Cheng The embattled smartphone manufacturer is betting its oddly shaped device will turn some heads.

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By Roger Cheng The embattled smartphone manufacturer is betting its oddly shaped device will turn some heads.

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By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Despite having almost a quarter of a billion active users, Amazon is struggling to find a footing for its hardware in peoples’ homes. You might have ten old Amazon boxes lying around—but did any of them contain a Fire phone? …

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By Brandon Hill Updates to address issues with third-party keyboards and VPN access among other things …read more

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By Chris Mills

Passwords are almost undisputedly broke: seemingly every month, a different major online service gets hacked, along with all your credit card details (and a few celeb’s personal photos). A Canadian startup thinks it has the solution: using your heartbeat as the authentication method.

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By Michelle Starr Japan’s giant construction company, Obayashi Corporation, has announced that it plans to build an elevator into space by the year 2050.

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By Seth Rosenblatt The Touch ID fingerprint reader on the iPhone 6 can be fooled by the same trick that unlocks the iPhone 5S — but it didn’t have to be that way, says security expert.
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By Chris Mills

PayPal has just taken its very first baby step towards allowing Bitcoin payments for goods, thanks to a partnership with payment processors BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin.

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By CBS News Staff Social-media campaign aimed at discouraging people from texting behind the wheel has so far garnered more than 5 million pledges.

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